– You begin to wear blue and bright yellow more than any other colors in your wardrobe… except maybe tan.

– At birthday parties, class volunteering, and other events where large amounts of kids are present, you have to restrain yourself from making the Scout Sign to try to get the kids to settle and listen.

– You have had occasion to say with excitement, “Ooh, that’s a great idea for a skit!”

– You know who Buttons the Radical Boy Scout is. (Alright that one might be a stretch, but I’m a big fan of Buttons, so there it is.)

– You can think up a fun game to play on the spur of the moment with only a shoddy bean bag, a hula hoop, and a spare neckerchief for props.

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And finally, our friend in Scouting Dick Nielson added many more funny ones to the list:

– Your license plate says AKELA, CUBS, BSA4EVR, or WEBELOS.

– You collect Wolf, Bear, Lion, and Webelos books.

– Your book case is filled with Pow Wow books and Program Helps.

– You need more space on your computer for clip art.

– You are at home alone with your kids and you start worry about two deep leadership.

– You refer to snack time at home as ‘cracker barrel’.

– You don’t have a problem with wearing the green scout socks anytime.

– You secretly wish the national colors were blue and gold.

– You count cubs to go to bed at night.

– You sit and wait for your wife to say ‘thank you’ before you will give her a kitchen knife.

– Your crayon/paint sets are missing all the blue and yellows.

– You wonder if you can get an order of just blue and yellow crayons/paint.

– You have a drawer of beads, belt loops, arrow points and advancements, ‘just in case’ someone forgot to tell you about one (and another for old egg cartons, another for soup cans, and another for rubber bands, string and rope).

– You think you could make a fortune renting a Pine Wood Derby track.

– You realize that the space derby and the rain gutter regatta are a weak replacement for the Pine Wood Derby that everyone would rather do anyway.

– You have a box of junk that the last leader gave you that you cannot throw away in case the feather, book, boondoggle, leather string, fishing line, 8 year old tape, and faded ribbons actually come in handy.